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Synopsis

Squidward is at home, about to watch House Fancy, a program showcasing fancy homes. As the host, Nicholas Withers, introduces the episode's first guest, Squidward gets a phone call from Squilliam. He reveals that the guest is none other than himself.

Squidward watches in anger as Squilliam shows off the various features of his house, which is several stories high, and includes an elevator with a built-in hot tub, decorative toilets with golden toilet paper holders, a garden on the rooftop, as well as a 130-foot sculpture of Squilliam's unibrow that consists of gilded doorknobs.

In a fit of blind jealousy, Squidward calls Nicholas and tells him that he has a much fancier home than Squilliam. Squidward realizes what he has done and desperately tries to make his house fancier, but with no success. He spots SpongeBob outside his window, who admits he's been spying on Squidward for days.

He offers to help him, with disastrous results (one of them involving Squidward's toenail being ripped out from moving a sofa). Soon, Squidward hears the doorbell ring and assuming that it is Nicholas, he tells SpongeBob to clean up the mess with a vacuum while he heads to the other room to dress his wound. It turns out that it is Patrick, who needs to use Squidward's restroom.

Once Patrick leaves, Squidward's toilet immediately dies. SpongeBob ends up sucking up everything in the house, causing the vacuum to explode and destroy the house. However, when Nicholas Withers comes over and sees Squidward's destroyed house, he views it as a work of abstract art and proclaims that his house is even better than Squilliam's.

The ending of the episode leads to Squilliam crying since he has lost, and Squidward is happy with the help of SpongeBob.

Release

Reception

As of February 1, 2019, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) gives this episode a rating of 6.7/10 based on 229 ratings by users.[1] TV.com users give this episode a rating of 7.5/10 based on 139 votes.[2]

Cultural references

When Squidward starts watching House Fancy, the theme song is a parody of "Clean House."

Errors

Squidward sets his tea cup down to answer the phone. When he is shocked to learn that Squilliam is on House Fancy, he suddenly has the cup in his hand and drops it on the floor.

After Squidward comments on Squilliam's house saying it exactly looks like his, there is a bump on the left side of it when the scene turns back to the house.

In the elevator, the right image of Squilliam does not have a unibrow.

The image of Squilliam on the right side has no unibrow.

Squilliam displays his "rooftop garden," but his house is initially shown to have a tower instead of a flat roof.

Squidward says there is a stain on the rug, but it is actually on the wooden floor.

When Squidward's couch is whole, the paint is all over it. However, when the couch is split in half, some of the paint disappears.

After Squidward's house is destroyed by the vacuum, for a split second one can see nothing at the house, not even SpongeBob and Squidward before the House Fancy logo comes up. However, when Nicholas Withers and Squilliam get to Squidward's house, everything is back at the house again.

In the ending scene where Nicholas Withers visits Squidward's house, SpongeBob's house next door is missing.

Whenever Squilliam Fancyson's last name is shown throughout the episode, it is spelled as "Fancy son."